Weddingbee Blog

Similar to Ms. Snow and her solution to having extra fabric, after making the ties for the groomsmen and Mr. GP, as well as the blue sash for my dress, I had a fair bit of our blue and yellow fabrics left over. Because of the odd shapes the tie pattern had cut out of the fabric, I knew it couldn’t really be used for anything that required large sections of fabric, and I decided to make fabric flags with the leftovers! I wanted to use this to decorate the railing that was at the front of our ceremony space, behind our ’altar’ to add a little more splash of color.

If you remember from my programs post, I had an awesome team of women helping me out the last few days before the wedding, and we tackled this project with the same quick intensity as the programs (and this is definitely not the last you’ll see of their help - have I mentioned how deeply indebted I am to them?)!

Friend DB cut out all the flags from the fabric and sewed the foldover section at the top that the rope would eventually go through:

(I’m beginning to wonder if I have a photo of friend DB NOT at the sewing machine?)

Aunt M fray checked the edges of the blue flags:

(The fabric pulled really easily at the edges, so fray check was a must)

And what’s that in the background of the above photo? Aunt B fray checking the yellow flags!

(with only one sewing machine, we didn’t want to tie it up with zigzag stitching the edges, which is why we chose fray check: multiple people could do it at once!)

The rope was bought at a dollar store, and it was laundry line - pretty thick, and 100 feet long. It seemed a little sturdier than we needed when we bought it, but boy-oh-boy did that turn out to be a good thing! I have no photos of the tedious process of threading the flags onto the rope, but here it is all bundled up and ready to head off to the venue:

(The sight of our colors together still makes me smile!)

The original plan was to swag the flags along the railing, but when the venue realized the winds were crazy on Saturday, they had to tie the rope down tight to the top of the banister! Luckily the wind still whipped them around and it was fun to the see the colors flying.

(This photo copyright of Amy Deputy Photography)

And lastly, a photo with the flags in action in the background: me reciting my vows to Mr. Guinea Pig, while trying to stop crying and wiping tears away. Mr. GP is reaching up to hold my hand (I’m such a sap I’m practically tearing up just looking at this photo!).

(colorful flags in the background! Photo by our friend Tim Fair)

I was pretty pleased with the result, even if they couldn’t be ’swagged’. They added the perfect touch of color to the front of the ceremony space!

Did you tackle any last minute projects with leftovers? What are you doing to add color to your space?